|
Looking
to add more drives to your perforated performer? Out of the box, your
Power Mac G5 provides mounting support for only two hard drives (and
one slot is already occupied), so if your needs are limited, that might
work out just fine... But, what if you need more storage space than two
drives can muster, and you don't want the added expense or desktop
clutter of external storage? Check out the G5 Jive - G5 Jive provides
secure anchorage for three additional drives and all the cables
necessary to connect them to a Serial ATA host controller card - just
add SATA drives to create the most cost-effective solution for adding
high-performance storage capacity to a Power Mac G5. Using Mac OS X
Disk Utility or third party software and multiple drives, you can
create a striped (RAID 0) array to achieve great read/write
performance, or a mirrored (RAID 1) array for data security. For even
greater flexibility and performance, an additional drive in the Power
Mac G5's second drive bay can be included with the G5 Jive drives in a
RAID O array - a four drive striped array can achieve data transfer
rates up to 274 MB/s!G5 Jive consists of a custom metal base plate
and mounting bracket, mounting screws, three internal SATA data cables,
and a custom-designed 3-drive SATA power cable. It mounts in the space
at the bottom of the case beneath the optical drive, and its
installation has zero impact on PCI slots and adapter cards. When
combined with a high-performance Serial ATA host controller card like
the Tempo-X eSATA 4+4, G5 Jive makes it possible for you to add up to
three additional internal drives now and four external drives in the
future.
|